An Emerging Vaccine Helps Prevent Prostate Cancer

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: James L. Gulley, MD, PhD, FACP Can a vaccination help prevent prostate cancer? Dr. James Gulley, director of the Clinical Trials Group of the Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology at the National Institutes of Health discusses studies involving the use of cancer vaccines to modulate the immune response in cancer patients. These trials contrast classic "tumor response" with "patient response" that have shown increased survival post therapy.